AUSTIN, Texas -- Three key baskets, two by Lashann Higgs and one by Joyner Holmes -- combined with a stifling Longhorn defense in the last two minutes -- shut down a West Virginia comeback and preserved a 50-44 Texas win in a Big 12 Conference game on Monday night at the Frank Erwin Center.
Ahead by 15 points in the third quarter, Texas saw West Virginia cut the lead to three with 2:06 remaining in the game. Higgs answered with a layup at 1:35, Holmes laid it in with 42 seconds left, and Higgs then sealed the Mountaineers' fate with a driving layup with 19 seconds remaining.